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One Year on From Cyclone Gabrielle
John Tookey Professor of Construction Management, Auckland University of Technology Auckland University of Technology Cyclone Gabrielle caused chaos one year ago. Repairs due to that storm and the Auckland floods have required substantial time and resources. Hawkes Bay, parts of Auckland and the Coromandel all still bear the scars of
Is the MSM Refusing to Publish Your Opinion Pieces?
Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
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Did You Know that the Treaty of Waitangi Was Rewritten?
Mike Butler Mike Butler wrote ‘The Treaty: Basic Facts,’ which is available at trosspublishing.com Complaints that the Luxon coalition Government is about to re-write the Treaty of Waitangi are a bit rich considering that the treaty was quietly re-written under another administration nearly forty years ago. In 1986, with
The Problem With Public Sector Job Ads
Have any of you been looking for employment? How difficult is it to look at the public sector when you continue to see statements like this in public sector advertisements: Ideally you will also have a good understanding of tikanga (Maori customs and protocols), with the ability to weave te
Do NZ Newbies Deserve the Same Rights as NZ Kiwis?
Brian Tamaki It’s time that Kiwis come together…Maori and European. Our enemy is not each other, it is those who are still trying to invade our shores and trying to take us over. As the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840 to stop other nations from invading
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So Newsroom, What about Media Lies?
On Waitangi Day it was the NZ Herald gaslighting us that they are honest, impartial and independent when they are as far removed from all of those as possible. Yesterday it was Newsroom’s turn to gaslight us, this time about disinformation. Newsroom are quite correct, except they aren’t
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Smoking Bans and Waitangi Tribunal
Dear Editor The request, by Hone Hawira’s Te Ropu Tupeka Kore, for the Waitangi Tribunal to rule that, because Maori are disproportionally affected by smoking related illness, the repeal of Labour’s tobacco sales ban is contrary to Treaty obligations, will set some interesting precedents if successful. Obesity disproportionally
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